Polishing pad for floor waxers



Aug. 13, 1929. H. D. FIELD POLISHING PAD FOR FLOOR WAXERS Filed May 24, 1926 Patented l3, i929.

UNITE s'rrns A'l'ENT OFFICE.

HERBERT D. FIELD, OF I/US ANGELEE, (llilhlih'fi'l illjl, jlfifiiltllll' 013; "E .lEEEBLESS PRODUCTS COMPANY, A COBlOl-MMTIUN Q11? CALIFORNIA.

POLISHFING 1 11.17 F018. IFLUUR "WAXEIRS.

Application filed May 241,

It is an objectof this invention to provide a flat and conveniently disposable polishing pad, suitable for use with ordinary or special floor waners. This polisha ing pad may be entirely distinct from, although suitable for use with, any WitXGT- head,so that the waxer may first be separately used in the distribution of wax, and thereafter be used to apply weight and to impart movement to my polishing pad.

Various types of floor WZIXOTS are now conveniently obtainable, for use in the application of a wax by means such as a suitably cut piece of cheese cloth, or the like, secured beneath a metallic head or WtLXGl body; and

it is an object of my invention to n'ovide a polishing pad comprising a plate of fibrous material, somewhat larger in area than such a waxer head or body,this pad being preferabiyprovided with a central depression or with peripheral cushioning or reinforcing elements or with a plurality of these features. The reinforcing elements, when provided, may be formed of substantially the same material as that used in the mentioned fibrous plate.

it is an object of my invention to provide an organization of the general character described in which a flat paper product, such as an envelope, may be interposed between a fibrous plate and waXer-head retaining means, such as peripheral strips .of fibrous material disposed for the mentioned cushioning or reinforcing effect,elast1c straps, or the like, being optionally interposed between said flat paper product and said reinforcing or cushioning elements; and the mentioned flat paper product, when in the form of an envelope, may be used for the storage of one or more spare pieces of cheese cloth, to be successively employed upon a floor waxer.

It is an object of my invention to provide an organization of the general. character referred to in which the mentioned parts are secured together, without the use of metallic fastenings, by means comprising a suitable adhesive,the mentioned fibrous plate being formed, in preferred embodiments of my invention, from for example, a currently obtainable stiff and flat sheet material comprising a web of burlap, or other woven product, upon which a layer or layers of iber are formed or secured; and, in preserial No. 111,151.

ferred embodiments of my invention, the upper siu'face of the mentioned envelope, or equivalent tlat paper product, may be provided with printed matter, such as instructions for using my polishing pad or the IR-X91 with which it intendedto be assoo1ated,--the exposed surface of said flat paper product l eing optionally coated with a material, such socalled water glass, to wnich floor .WLXQS in current use will not adhere.

.lt is thus an object of my invention to pro-yide a polishing pad which can be 0011- veniently attached to or detached from a floor warrer head, the more weight of the minor head being ordinarily sufiicient to maintain a desired relationship, during polishing operations, between a waxer head and a pad, the pad being preferably provided not only with rein'hn'cing or cushioning means but with stowage means, with advertising means, or the like, and with means whereby a polisher may be so secured thereto as to lreep the same together, even though the waiter be lifted from place to place, in a closet, or elsewhere. i

Uther objects of my invention may be best appreciated from the following description of illustralaive en'ibodiments thereof, taken in commotion with the appended claims and the accompanying drawings, in which i i Fig. l a diagrammatic sectional view of a very simple embodiment of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view, showing one i of my polishing pad. as secured to a floor .vaxer head. i

Fig. 3 is a view, comparable to Fig. 2, but omitting a waxer head, parts being broken away mostly to a plane such as is indicated by the line 3-3 of hi 1.

Fig. i is a sectional view, taken in a plane such as that indicated by the line 4--4 of Fig. 2 and Fig. 3.

Referring to the details of that simple embodiment of my invention shown in Fig. l, 11. may be a flat paper product, such as a single sheet of heavy manila, this sheet having secured to its lower surface a plate of.

fibrous material. 12, which may be an unusuallythick and fibrous felt, or other elastic material, suitable for a polishing effect; and, in order to prevent or limit relative movement between a polishing pad compristionally provided, as at 13, not only at or near one or both ends of a pad, but, as at 1 1, 14, at or near one or both sides thereof. Although the flat paper product 11 may, for purposes hereinafter described, advan t-ageously be an envelope (to contain a piece or pieces of cheese cloth, and optionally supplemented by wax-retaining devices additional to the marginal elements mentioned above) I will describe such additional features only in connection with an alternative and preferred embodiment of my invention illustrated in Figs. 2, 3, and 4,-I, however mention at this point (1) that I may rely largely or exclusively upon an adhesive (such as a mixture of molasses, glue and shellac) in securing the mentioned parts in their indicated relationships; (2) that the weight of an ordinary waxer head (which need not interfit precisely within the marginal elements 13, 14, 14') is ordinarily adequate to cause one of polishers to reciprocate therewith, in the polishing of a floor; and (3) that the exposed central portion of the flat paper product 11, or its equivas alent, may advantageously be provided with a Wax-repellant coating (such as water glass to prevent evaporation and consequent waste of wax during periods of storage) and with printed matter,such as advertising matter or directions for use of a waxer and a polishing pad of the general character referred to. 7

Although various materials might be employed for a similar effect, I prefer to form the plates of my polishing pads of a currently obtainable material comprising, as shown in connection with the fibrous plate 12 (Figs. 2, 3 and 4) a layer 15 of burlap, or the like (this constituting a layer of Woven fiber), upon which is formed or secured a layer 16" of a comparatively coarse and resilient felt,a similar layer 17 being optionally formed or secured above the bur- H lap 15 ,'or its equivalent; and a suitably cut rectangle of this material may be attached, as by means of an adhesive of the general character mentioned, to the lower surface of a comparatively tough envelope 18 suitable for the initial stowage of one or more pieces '19 of so-ealled cheese cloth, of the general character commonly used in applying wax to a floor.

It will be understood that the plate 1%,

or its equivalent, is "intended to extend, in all directions, slightly beyond the edges of a Waxer head used therewith; and, in order to provide additional reinforcing and cushioning means, I prefer to secure, above some or all of the edges of a polishing pad eo1nprising the mentioned parts, suitable marginal strips,these being shown at 13, 13, 14 and 145 as formed from the same material as the plate 12 and as extending slightly beyond the edges of the envelope l8',in order to safeguard the edges of said envelope from wear, and hold the said envelope, or its equivalent, substantially flat and parallel withthe plate 12.

The upper surface of the envelope 19, or the central and exposed portion thereof, may be provided (as suggested in Fig. 3) with any desired illustrative or printed matter; and, incidentally to the securing of the mentioned peripheral strips, or the like, in their indicated relationships, I may secure also one or more linear elements, such as elastic strips or tapes 20, 20 for use in releasably securing the head or body of a waxcr to a, polishing pad of the general character described. In this connection, it will be understood that printed matter may be omitted not only from the marginal areas but from those transverse areas which are normally covered by the strips 20, 20, or their equivalents; and that a coating of water glass, or the like, may be applied either before or after the printing and the attachment of the described parts above the envelope 18, or its equivalent, by means such as the mentioned adhesive.

As indicated, although I may use stitching, I prefer to avoid the use of metallic fasteners in my pads; and I find that the mentioned adhesive is adequate to hold all of the described parts in their indicated relationships,the products being preferably permitted to dry in a press for a few hours, as 12 hours, after they are assembled in the indicated manner.

In the use of a polishing pad of the general character described, the elastic straps 20, 20 or the like, need not be disturbed (except as the hand of an operative may be placed thereunder, as in the polishing of a table top, or the like) the more weight of a floor polisher, as ordinarily constructed, being, as indicated above, effective to enable the user, by manipulation of a handle 21 connected with a waxer head or body 22- (subsequently to an application of wax, without the use of the described polishcr) quickly to produce a high luster upon any ordinary floor, or equivalent surface.

To facilitate access to the envelope 18, or its equivalent (both the plate 12, to. which the lower surface of the envelope 18 may be secured throughout the entire area of the latter, and the reinforcing member 14, to which the upper surface of said envelope may be secured, being comparatively still) a thumb notch may optionally be provided,

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somewhat as shown at 23, Fig. 2; and, when the polisher and wax-er are to be stowed together, as in a closet, the surface thereof may be preserved, and they may be kept together, by the snapping of the elastic straps 2O, 20 into positions such as those in which they are shown in Fig. 2.

The preservative effect just referred to is one of the notable advantages of my organization-the comparatively fiat paper prod not being effective, by reason of its coating and its close contact with the waxer, substantially to prevent evaporation of volatile constituents from any wax that may remain on the cheese cloth or other distributing element of a waxerwith a notable resultant conservation of cheese cloth, of wax and of time.

Although I have herein described but one comparatively simple embodiment and one more complicated embodiment of my inven tion, it should be understood not only that various features thereof may be independently used but also that numerous modifications might be devised by those skilled in the art to which this case relates, without the slightest departure from the spirit and scope of this invention, as the same is indicated above and in the following claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. A polishing pad comprising a stiff and flat plate of fibrous material, the periphery of which is provided with substantially rigid upwardly extending reinforcing means to prevent lateral slippage of a floor waxer head therefrom, said plate comprising a layer of woven fiber having a layer of matted fiber formed thereon.

2. A polishing pad comprising: a stiff and flat plate of fibrous material provided with means to prevent lateral slippage of a floor waXer head therefrom,said means comprising upstanding substantially rigid reinforcements of like material.

3. A polishing pad comprising: a stiff and flat plate of fibrous material provided with means to prevent lateral slippage of a floor waxer head therefro1n,said means comprising upstanding substantially rigid marginal reinforcements of like material, peripherally positioned for a cushioning effect.

4. A polishing pad comprising a stiff and flat plate of fibrous material provided with a central depression adapted to receive the weighted head of a polisher and with an envelope coated with a Wax repellant material secured within said depression.

5. A polishing pad comprising a stiff and flat plate of fibrous material provided with a central depression adapted to receive the weighted head of a polisher; and with a storage compartment for a wax distributing cloth within said depression.

6. A polishing pad comprising a stiff and flatplate of fibrous material provided with a central depression and a pair of elastic linear elements for its releasable attachment to a waxer, the ends of said waxer extending parallel with and being permanently secured to said plate.

7 A polishing pad comprising a stiff and flat fibrous plate having an envelope permanently secured to and parallel with the upper surface thereof and a peripheral cushioning reinforcement protecting the edges of said envelope.

8. A polishing pad comprising: a stiff and flat fibrous plate having an envelope secured to the upper surface thereof; and a periphe-al cushioning reinforcement,--said reinforcement being secured to the upper surface of said envelope.

9. A polishing pad comprising a stiff and flat fibrous plate having an envelope secured to the upper surface thereof and a peripheral cushioning reinforcement, said reinforcement being secured to the upper surface of said envelope, and an elastic strap secured to said plate above said envelope.

10. A polishing pad comprising a stiff and flat fibrous plate having an envelope permanently secured to the upper surface there of, said envelope having a smaller area than said upper surface and an exposed portion of said envelope being provided with means to prevent waste of wax during periods of storage.

11. A polishing pad comprising a stiff and flat plate of fibrous material provided with a central depression adapted to receive the weighted head of a polisher; a flat paper product secured to said plate and covering the bottom of said depression; and resilient strips secured to said pad and adapted to engage a waxer head.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles, California, this 17th day of May, 1926.

HERBERT D. FIELD. 

